SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — While Utah is landlocked and deals more with earthquakes than tsunamis, the news of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the Russian coast spread quickly. Tsunami alerts were ...

What causes a tsunami, and how could a powerful earthquake like the one off Russia’s coast trigger massive waves? A tsunami is a series of ocean waves caused by a sudden disturbance, usually an ...

Finally, we learnt that the effect of modern tsunamis carries far further than people might have imagined. On the west coast of the United States Professor Samuel Chan is an expert in invasive species ...

Tsunami alerts lit up Siri Zama's phone on Tuesday. The 28-year-old high school teacher in Kapolei, Hawaii, fled inland. "It was raining, and the clouds got real dark. It was just a little scary. I ...

Tsunamis are notoriously difficult to spot on the open ocean as they race towards shore. But in the summer of 2025, ...

It starts as a tremor deep beneath the ocean. The ground shifts violently. Minutes later, you see a ripple on the horizon that begins to swell. But this is no ordinary wave. It is a wall of water ...

In this week’s column, geologist and earthquake expert Lori Dengler addresses “the two greatest tsunamis to hit both coasts ...